Understanding and transforming work - The practice of ergonomics

The aim of this book published today in a broadly reviewed edition is to help establish a viewpoint on work activity in its relations with the way companies function. The authors explain how "real activity" of operators expresses and reformulates the material and organisational conditions of work. This real activity contributes to producing company wealth but also giving the meaning each attributes individually and collectively to work. Hence the necessity of taking it into account right from the start, extending the collective aspect and objectives of conception. The analysis of the activity and its understanding are presented as a means allowing us to : understand and explain relations between employees' conditions of production and healt; offer useful areas of discussion for the conception of work situations; - improve the organisation of socio-technical systems, the management of human resources and consequently the performance of the company as a whole. The association of different players in the company in implementing this approach should allow better anticipation and thus better contre of the work transformation processes. In this book, the authors have formalised an intervention practice based on a rich and diversified repository of case studies and on a scientific approach. They have largely contributed to the development of the ergonomicOnalysis of work and its teaching.